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adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective

marītus1

marītus (feminine marīta, neuter marītum)
Classical[maˈriː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[maˈriː.tus]
№ 654 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. adjectivemarital, matrimonial, conjugal

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

vir uxōris suae: pater in tabulā marītus mātris est.
marītus -ī m — in Mille Verba, Domus et Familia

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Femina · Mulier · Uxor · Conjux · Marita

1. Femina (φυομένη) denotes woman with regard to her physical nature and sex, as bringing forth, in opp. to mas; whereas mulier (from mollis), woman, in a physical point of view, as the weaker and more tender sex, in opp. to vir; whence femina only can be used for the female of an animal. 2. Mulier denotes also the married woman, in opp. to virgo, Cic. Verr. ii. 1; whereas uxor and conjux, the wife, in opp. to the husband; uxor, merely in relation to the man who has married her, in opp. to maritus, Tac. G. 18; conjux (from conjungere), in mutual relation to the husband, as half of a pair, and in opp. to liberi, Cic. Att. viii. 2. Catil. iii. 1. Liv. v. 39, 40. Tac. Ann. iv. 62. H. iii. 18. 67. Suet. Cal. 17. Accordingly, uxor belongs to the man; conjux is on a par with the man; uxor refers to an every-day marriage, like wife; conjux, to a marriage between people of rank, like consort. Vell. Pat. ii. 100. Claudius, Gracchus, Scipio, quasi cujuslibet uxore violata pœnas perpendere, quum Cæsaris filiam et Nerones violassent conjugem. 3. Uxor is the ordinary, marita a poetical, expression for a wife. (iv. 327.)

Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativemarītusmarītamarītum
genitivemarītīmarītaemarītī
dativemarītōmarītaemarītō
accusativemarītummarītammarītum
ablativemarītōmarītāmarītō
vocativemarītemarītamarītum
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativemarītīmarītaemarīta
genitivemarītōrummarītārummarītōrum
dativemarītīsmarītīsmarītīs
accusativemarītōsmarītāsmarīta
ablativemarītīsmarītīsmarītīs
vocativemarītīmarītaemarīta

mărītus, a, um, adj. mas,
I. of or belonging to marriage, matrimonial, conjugal, nuptial, marriage-.
I. Adj. (so mostly poet.; not in Cic.).
A. Lit.: facibus cessit maritis, to the nuptial torches, to wedlock, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 33. faces, Ov. H. 11, 101: foedus, the conjugal tie, id. P. 3, 1, 73: tori, id. H. 2, 41: sacra, Prop. 3, 20, 26 (4, 20, 16); Ov. H. 12, 87: Venus, wedded love, id. ib. 16, 283; cf.: fides, conjugal fidelity, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 11. lex, respecting marriage, a marriage-law (de maritandis ordinibus, Suet. Aug. 34), Hor. C. S. 20.—In prose: vagabatur per maritas domos dies noctesque, i. e. the houses of married people, Liv. 27, 31, 5 Drak.—
B. Transf.
1. Of plants, wedded, i. e. tied up (cf. marito, II. B.): arbores, Cato, R. R. 32, 2; Col. 11, 2, 32: ulmo conjuncta marito (sc. vitis), Cat. 62, 54; Quint. 8, 3, 8: olivetum, Col. 3, 11, 3.—
2. Impregnating, fertilizing (in postclass. poetry): fluctus (Nili), Avien. Perieg. 339: imbres, Pervigil. Ven. 4, 11.—
II. Subst.
A. mărītus, i, m., a married man, husband (freq. and class.; cf. conjux, vir): ditis damnosos maritos sub basilica quaerito, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 10: ut maritus sis quam optimae (mulieris), Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52: sororis, id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; Liv. 1, 57, 10; Quint. 6, 2, 14; 3, 11, 4; Suet. Caes. 43; 52; 81; Tac. A. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1; 2, 20, 2; Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 1; Just. 1, 7, 19; Val Max. 8, 2, 14; Gell. 1, 17 et saep.: insidian iem somno maritorum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26: quae major calumnia est quam venire imberbum adulescentem, bene valentem ac maritum, id. Dom. 14, 37; Liv. 36, 17, 8; opp. coelebs: seu maritum sive coelibem scortarier, Plaut. Merc. 5, 14, 58; id. Cas. 2, 4, 11 sq.; Quint. 5, 10, 26; Sen. Ep. 94, 8; Gell. 2, 15: bonus optandusque maritus, Juv. 6, 211: malus ingratusque maritus, id. 7, 169: mariti testamentum, Quint. 9, 2, 73: patrius, Verg. A. 3, 297: Phrygio servire marito, id. ib. 4, 103: unico gaudens mulier marito, Hor. C. 3, 14, 5: novus, a newly-married man, a young husband, Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 6: intra quartum et vicesimum annum maritus, Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 3: recens, id. ib. 8, 23, 8: ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito, Tib. 3, 4, 31: lex Bithynorum, si quid mulier contrahat, maritum auctorem esse jubet, Gai. Inst. 1, 193: si maritus pro muliere se obligaverit, Ulp. Fragm. 11, 3: maritus lugendus decem mensibus, Plaut. Sent. 1, 21, 13.—
B. Transf.
1. A lover, suitor (poet.), Prop. 2, 21 (3, 14), 10: aegram (Dido) nulli quondam flexere mariti, Verg. A. 4, 35.—
2. Of animals: ol ens maritus, i. e. a he-goat, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7: quem pecori dixere maritum, Verg. G. 3, 125; so, gregum, Col. 7, 6, 4; of cocks, id. 8, 5 fin.; Juv. 3, 91.—
3. In plur.: mă-rīti, ōrum, m., married people, man and wife (post-class.), Dig. 24, 1, 52 fin.: novi mariti, newly-married people, a young couple, App. M. 8, p. 201, 36.—
III. mărīta, ae, f., a married woman, wife (poet. and postclass.): marita, Hor. Epod. 8, 13: castae maritae, Ov. F. 2, 139; id. H. 12, 175; Inscr. Orell. 2665; Inscr. Fabr. 299 al.; and freq. on epitaphs.

Origins

Perhaps related with mās (“male, a male”). According to De Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *morei-, *mori- or *morih₂- (“young woman”), developing into a pre-Italic *mārī-, with possessive *-to-. Compare Welsh morwyn (“girl, maiden”) (< Proto-Celtic *moreinā-), Welsh merch (“daughter”) (< Proto-Celtic *merkā), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy, girl”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “young man; foal”), Bactrian μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”) (< Proto-Indo-European *meri̯o-), Lithuanian merga (“girl”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mergh-eh₂-), Lithuanian marti (“daughter-in-law”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mor-t-iH-).

noun · masculinesecond declension
marītus2
marītus m (genitive marītī, feminine marīta)
Classical[maˈriː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[maˈriː.tus]
№ 654 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. husband, married man
  2. poeticlover, suitor
    Ēsto: aegram nūllī quondam flexēre marītī, nōn Libyae, nōn ante Tyrō; [...].“Granted, in your grief, not one of those prior [would-be] husbands prevailed upon you — none from Libya, nor before then in Tyre; ….” (Anna notably uses the term “mariti” — not “proci” — to describe the men that Dido has rejected as prospective alliances.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.35-36
  3. masculinemale

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativemarītusmarītī
marītae
genitivemarītī
marītae		marītōrum
marītārum
dativemarītō
marītae		marītīs
accusativemarītum
marītam		marītōs
marītās
ablativemarītōmarītīs
vocativemarītemarītī
marītae

mărītus, i, v. 1. maritus, II. A.

Origins

Perhaps related with mās (“male, a male”). According to De Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *morei-, *mori- or *morih₂- (“young woman”), developing into a pre-Italic *mārī-, with possessive *-to-. Compare Welsh morwyn (“girl, maiden”) (< Proto-Celtic *moreinā-), Welsh merch (“daughter”) (< Proto-Celtic *merkā), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy, girl”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “young man; foal”), Bactrian μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”) (< Proto-Indo-European *meri̯o-), Lithuanian merga (“girl”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mergh-eh₂-), Lithuanian marti (“daughter-in-law”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mor-t-iH-).

Descendants
  • Catalanmarit
  • Frenchmari
  • Italianmarito
  • Occitanmarit
  • Portuguesemarido
  • Romanianmărit
  • Sardinianmadiru
  • Spanishmarido
  • Aragonesemariu
  • Aromanianmãrit

Quick answers

What does marītus mean in Latin?
marītus, a adjective, means “marital, matrimonial, conjugal”.
How do you pronounce marītus?
In classical Latin, [maˈriː.tʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [maˈriː.tus].